Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
Sarah Munce, MSc, PhD
Scientist, KITE Research Institute, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute-University Health Network (TRI-UHN)
Assistant Professor (status), Department of Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy (OS & OT), Rehabilitation Sciences Institute (RSI), Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (IHPME), University of Toronto
Graduate Coordinator, Rehabilitation Sciences Institute, University of Toronto
Dr. Munce’s program of research relates to the development, implementation, and evaluation of online transitional care interventions (e.g., peer support, self-management, peer navigation) for individuals with complex needs and their family members. She uses mixed methods, implementation science, co-design, and integrated knowledge translation/patient engagement approaches to carry out this research program. Dr. Munce has served as an Academic Editor and Guest Editor at two other journals before she joined JMIR Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies as the new Editor-in-Chief. She looks forward to working with the Editorial Board Members and the JMIR team to promote the visibility of JMIR Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies and ensure the publication of highly relevant and rigorous research.
Dr. Sarah Munce, PhD is a health services research and implementation scientist at the KITE Research Institute, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute-University Health Network. She is also an Assistant Professor (status) in Department of Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy with cross-appointments at the Rehabilitation Sciences Institute (RSI), and the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (IHPME) at the University of Toronto. Sarah is the former Membership Chair for the Mixed Methods International Research Association (MMIRA). She completed her PhD in Health Services Research-Outcomes and Evaluation with a Knowledge Translation specialization designation from the IHPME at the University of Toronto in 2014. She completed her post-doctoral training at the KITE Research Institute specializing in mixed methods research and implementation science in the rehabilitation context.
Shruti Kochhar, BPharm, MS, Managing Editor
Editorial Board Members
Associate Editors
Maurice Mulvenna, BSc, MPhil, PhD
Professor, Ulster University, United Kingdom
Professor Maurice Mulvenna, is a researcher in computer science and artificial intelligence at Ulster University, known for his contribution to interdisciplinary research in health, mental health and wellbeing with colleagues in psychology, business, nursing, and healthcare. He is a senior member of both the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the Association for Computing Machinery, and a chartered fellow of the British Computer Society. In 2014, he was elected as a Board Member of the International Society for Gerontechnology (ISG). He has published over 400 internationally peer-reviewed publications. He is principal investigator or investigator on more than 120 research projects with total research funding of €66M, many of which relate to the development of health and wellbeing interventions, including the ChatPal project which includes the design and trial of a chatbot to support mental health and wellbeing. He chaired the 32nd British HCI conference in 2018, the 31st European Cognitive Ergonomics Conference in 2019 and the International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health 2021-2023. Maurice is a past winner of the European €200K IST Grand Prize, and has won the Societal Impact Award at the UK National KTP Best of the Best Awards 2020. He also won the Inaugural Award for Industry-Academic Collaboration from the Centre for Behaviour Change Conference on Behaviour Change for Health: Digital and Other Innovative Methods, in 2019 with colleagues. Professor Mulvenna’s research interests include artificial intelligence; data mining; data analytics; digital mental health & wellbeing; dementia; assistive technologies; innovation, knowledge and technology transfer.
Brooke Allemang, PhD
Research Fellow, SickKids Research Institute, Canada
Dr. Brooke Allemang is a registered social worker and holds a PhD in Social Work focused on the pediatric-adult transition readiness of youth with co-occurring chronic health and mental health conditions. She is a recipient of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Patient-Oriented Research Transition to Leadership Fellowship with expertise in qualitative methods, patient-oriented research, mixed methods research, arts-based methods including digital storytelling, and clinical social work with youth and their families in hospital and community-based settings.
Alessandro Scano, PhD
Researcher, Intelligent Industrial Systems and Technologies for Advanced Manufacturing - National Research Council of Italy, Italy
Alessandro Scano, Ph.D., is a bioengineer who graduated from Politecnico di Milano and has been working since 2011 for the Italian National Research Council as a researcher in the biomedical field. His main area of expertise concerns the study of motor control and the design of novel algorithms based on the synergistic approach, with applications especially in the field of rehabilitation, including robots and assistive technologies. He has authored approximately 60 indexed contributions (with 40+ in journals with impact factors) and has participated in many national and international projects.
Kristina Kokorelias, PhD
Assistant Professor, University of Toronto, Canada
Dr. Kristina Kokorelias works as the Senior Academic Program Coordinator for the Department of Medicine’s Healthy Ageing and Geriatrics Program at Sinai Health and the University Health Network. In her role, Kristina helps to oversee the academic outcomes of the program by contributing to the operations, teaching, leadership, quality improvement, and health services research to help improve the quality of care for older adults and their caregivers. Kristina also has status appointments as Associate Scientist (Sinai Health) and Assistant Professor, Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy at the University of Toronto. Her program of research aims to understand the experiences and needs of family caregivers and older adults with complex care needs with the aim of using this information to develop, evaluate, and implement timely family-centered care programs and services. Her other research interests include advancing models of integrated care, sex and gender-based differences in family caregiving, and health care utilization patterns amongst diverse patient populations. Kristina aims to work closely with the end users of her research so the programs that are developed through research are in line with the goals and objectives of existing health and social care service delivery models.
Boris Schmitz, PhD
Chief Scientist, Chair of Rehabilitation Sciences, Witten/Herdecke University, Germany
Dr Schmitz research interests and experience focus on cardiac rehabilitation and prevention using telemedicine and eHealth solutions. He also investigates medical rehabilitation of Post/Long-COVID-19 patients. He is initiator of the Horizon2020 project TIMELY (https://www.timely-project.com) and scientific advisor to BIOTRONIK for eHealth solutions. Dr. Schmitz is designated member of the Faculty of Health Research Board at UWH.
Alfonso Mastropietro, PhD
Researcher, Institute for Biomedical Technologies (ITB) – CNR, Italy
Dr. Mastropietro is a bioengineer and researcher at the Italian National Research Council since 2017. He has a PhD in Bioengineering from the Polytechnic of Milan and has experience in preclinical and clinical studies using MRI and EEG techniques. His main research interests include MRI quantitative medical imaging, biomedical image analysis, diffusion MRI, advanced MRI techniques, preclinical MRI, molecular imaging, biomedical signal analysis, EEG, central nervous system, stroke, skeletal muscle, rehabilitation, and cognitive load.
Urvashy Gopaul, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, Canada
Dr Gopaul's research interests and experience focus on upper limb rehabilitation of motor and sensory functions using clinical approaches combined with rehabilitation technologies in neurological populations.
Jack Zhang, PhD
Research Assitant Professor, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Dr. Jack Zhang is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Rehabilitation Sciences at PolyU. His research focuses on the utility of transcranial magnetic stimulation, multimodal neurophysiological, and neuroimaging techniques to uncover recovery mechanisms in neurological and psychiatric conditions, aiming to optimize rehabilitation outcomes. He is passionate about applying innovative neural technologies, including closed-loop brain-computer interfaces, in experimental translational rehabilitation research.